Corny Quotes - Page 5

• It has a sound and rational circulating medium, a real and definite representative of wealth.

  Josiah Warren

  Real, Sound, Wealth

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• I've had so many hot, cheesy, corny loves of music in my life. I had a very intense Billy Joel period. So once you've really Joeled it up - there's some good periods of Joel; it's not all hot cheese. But I can't judge anyone else for their cheese. I've deep-sea dived in the Gouda.

  Jack Black

  Sea, Judging, Cheesy

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• Earmarks have become a symbol of a Congress that has broken faith with the people. This earmark ban shows the American people we are listening and we are dead serious about ending business as usual in Washington.

  John Boehner

  People, Broken, Listening

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• House and Senate Republicans are now united in adopting earmark bans. We hope President Obama will follow through on his support for an earmark ban by pressing Democratic leaders to join House and Senate Republicans in taking this critical step to restore public trust.

  John Boehner

  House, Support, Leader

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• Technology has advanced more in the last thirty years than in the previous two thousand. The exponential increase in advancement will only continue. Anthropological Commentary The opposite of a trivial truth is false; the opposite of a great truth is also true.

  Niels Bohr

  Technology, Years, Opposites

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• The offhand decision of some commonplace mind high in office at a critical moment influences the course of events for a hundred years.

  Thomas Hardy

  Years, Office, Decision

  Thomas Hardy (2007). “Thomas Hardy”, p.176, Wordsworth Editions

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• Where everything is possible miracles become commonplaces, but the familiar ceases to be self-evident.

  Eric Hoffer

  Self, Miracle, Science Fiction

  Eric Hoffer (1996). “The Passionate State of Mind”

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• Little minds are interested in the extraordinary; great minds in the commonplace.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Mind, Literature, Littles

  Thousand and One Epigrams (1911) p. 133

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• There isn't any formula or method. You learn to love by loving - by paying attention and doing what one thereby discovers has to be done.

  Aldous Huxley

  Love, Wise, Wisdom

  1944 Time Must Have a Stop.

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• I actually share her view and understand her frustration when any government attempts to ban secular symbols like Santa Claus or Rudolph the Red Nose Reindeer or Christmas lights.

  Steve Israel

  Christmas, Frustration, Light

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• I know it sounds corny, man, but I like to bring folks joy, and I like to have a good time. I know folks like to be with somebody who's having a good time. You sure as hell don't want to be with somebody who's having a bad day.

  Wolfman Jack

  Bad Day, Men, Joy

  "Wolfman Jack signs off at 57", www.cnn.com. July 2, 1995.

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• I always find it kind of embarrassing, kind of funny, and kind of exciting. In New York I'm recognized a lot, although nobody says anything. You know, they stare at you just a second too long. But in Paris it's not as commonplace to be recognized.

  Marc Jacobs

  New York, Paris, Long

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• I did write a letter to the archdiocese who'd banned the song, Only the Good Die Young, asking them to ban my next record.

  Billy Joel

  Song, Writing, Asking

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• Many other countries have already banned human cloning, and there are efforts at the UN to make such a ban universal.

  Leon Kass

  Country, Effort, Cloning

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• It sounds so trite but in relationships, you have to communicate.

  Peter Krause

  Communication, Sound, Communicate

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Sometimes you have the trends that's not that cool. You may have certain artists portraying these trends and don't really have that lifestyle, and then it gives off the wrong thing. And it becomes kinda corny after awhile. It's really about keeping hip-hop original and pushing away the corniness in it.

  Kendrick Lamar

  Artist, Giving, Hip Hop

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• At a certain age, death becomes familiar to you-or a loss becomes familiar-the tragedies that are more commonplace in life.

  Jessica Lange

  Loss, Tragedy, Certain

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• And to the rest of the world
  God gave you shoes to fit you
  So put 'em on and wear 'em
  Be yourself man, be proud of who you are
  Even if it sounds corny
  Don't ever let anyone tell you you ain't beautiful

  Eminem

  Beautiful, Being Yourself, Rap

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• Life is like a B-picture script! It is that corny. If I had my life story offered to me to film, I'd turn it down.

  Kirk Douglas

  Movie, Inspiring, Life Is Like

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• You can have financial strength, professional strength, emotional strength but for me without spiritual strength none of the rest of it matters.

  Star Jones

  Spiritual, Emotional, Matter

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• I've made a wonderful living playing that theatrical character - the professional brassy dame

  Ethel Merman

  Character, Dames, Wonderful

  Ethel Merman, George Eells (1979). “Merman: an autobiography”, Berkley Pub Group

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• You have to figure out who the right person is to tell the story. And often, people who are very self-aware will only sound as if they are pontificating if they tell the story.

  Ann Beattie

  Writing, Self, People

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• It sounds like something on a very trite T-shirt, but life is what happens.

  Nigella Lawson

  Sound, Life Is, T Shirt

  "Nigella Lawson: Who'd be a goddess?" by Sally Vincent, www.theguardian.com. October 15, 2004.

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• What is fanaticism today is the fashionable creed tomorrow, and trite as the multiplication table a week after.

  Wendell Phillips

  Tables, Today, Tomorrow

  Wendell Phillips (1982). “Wendell Phillips on Civil Rights and Freedom”

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• It sounds so trite, but my private life is mine.

  Portia de Rossi

  Sound, Life Is, Private Life

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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